Am I missing something? Why have six Greenpeace protestors decided to climb the Shard to protest against Shell's oil drilling in the Arctic? Shell doesn't have an office in the Shard, last time I checked. Wouldn't it have made more sense to climb the nearby Shell Centre?

Another thing I don't get about this protest is why all the climbers are women. Is that supposed to enhance the protest in some way? Make it more startling? Garner more publicity? The suspicion is that Greenpeace thought it would make more of an impact because, you know, it's harder for a woman to climb a tall building than a man. Ooh, look, a woman did something brave that requires physical strength. Well I never! Isn't that a teensy-weensy bit sexist? Greenpeace is implicitly accepting that women are the weaker sex.